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Lies, lies and boredom
This is probably one of the worst movies I've seen last year. Never mind the "documentary" component of it.
The "facts" and lies in this movies are well known and you can always see the opposing opinion over at "Expelled Exposed".
I'm more interested in reviewing Expelled as a movie. It isn't a good movie, in fact it is a very bad movie. For some unknown reason, it is very poorly produced, the lighting is bad, the camera work is weird and at times almost amateurish.
The pacing of the movie is also off kilter. It starts of with the premise that Intelligent Design is being unfairly attacked by "Big Science". It interviews various anti-evolution folk, ungodly scientist and makes claims that ID is not a religious belief. It essentially lays claim that ID is not religious but it is being persecuted.
By the second half of the movie it changes direction and makes grand claims about how evolution and Darwin led to Nazism and caused the Holocaust. This is a premise which is just disgusting, manipulative and plain wrong. What I find amusing is at this point, it loses all pretense in claiming ID is not religious by using many religious quotes.
Never mind the propaganda, what's worse is that it is boring. Very very boring. The jokes fall flat, the music is over the top in attempted emotional manipulation.
While I didn't like Sicko because of how it played loose and fast with its facts, as least it was amusing and well made. Expelled is not a good movie. It is badly done, badly paced and very boring. This is just garbage.
July 2008 · Movies and TV